185 Quotes About Grandmother
- Author Cassie Beasley
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....Blue frowned at the scene before them. Someone was behind an azalea bush, pointing the beam of a flashlight up at a dark figure on the roof of the house. Something like confetti was drifting through the air as the figure spun in circles and waved its arms." What is this place?""It's the Okra Lane Home for Seniors ""Somebody's twirling around on the roof.""Yes." Granny Eve sighed. "That's your great-grand-mother.
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- Author Lynda Nguyen
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Courage and strength moves like the steadfast waves of the ocean. Ebbs and flows, highs and lows, loud and soft, firm and vulnerable, passing encouragement from one generation to the next.
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- Author Sneha Subramanian Kanta
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1947, a found poem,full of erasures in historyof India and Pakistan.
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- Author Nathacha Appanah
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Jamais ma grand-mère ne se séparait de moi sans me donner quelque chose, un bonbon, une pièce de monnaie, un fruit, une cuillerée de son repas, une gorgée de son thé, un bout de son pain.
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- Author Tamora Pierce
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And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about.""Everyone keep warning me about sailors," I complained. "Why can't someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me?"Granny snorted. "Oh, you're the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob!
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- Author Cassandra Gannon
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Does that mean you won’t be building me a castle in our new kingdom?” He pouted. “Because, your grandmother said I could be prince of the Enchanted Forest. She’s going to steal me a crown and everything. We have it all planned.
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- Author Fredrik Backman
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It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.
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- Author Regina Barreca
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we always went back to my grandma’s pockets, because she carried in them everything you would need to get through the day or start life in a new state.You wanted hard candy, loose change, a little pencil, a bobby pin, a safety pin, a pre-threaded needle, an aspirin, Band-Aids, stamps or rubber bands? She had them on her person at all times. Those pockets carried what are now carried at bodegas.
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- Author Anne Lamott
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Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these years.
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